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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 01/07/2026

If you've been following the "controversy" surrounding the Canadian Museum for Human Rights' Nakba exhibit, you won't want to miss tomorrow's edition of Second Scoop. Emma breaks down how the campaign against it pushes anti-Palestinian racism. Sign up below👇 www.readthemaple.com/signup-secon...

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 25/06/2026

We just published the first wide edition of Second Scoop, a new media criticism newsletter from The Maple. This week, Emma panned the National Post's love affair with Elon Musk and highlighted what the press missed in its coverage of the Iran deal. Sign up: www.readthemaple.com/signup-secon...

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 05/05/2026

Canada's Department of National Defence is claiming it has *zero* records regarding NATO's 5% GDP military spending target.

Text reads: “Please provide copies of any and all internal (i.e., not published publicly)
Department or CAF reports that discuss Canada spending or working towards
spending 5% of its national GDP on the military (and/or 3.5% directly on the
military plus 1.5% on related infrastructure).
Scope Date: 2024-Nov-14 to 2025-Nov-14”
Following a thorough and complete search for all records in response to your request, it is
determined that no records could be located within the Department of National Defence.

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 02/03/2026

Days after Mark Carney endorsed the US-Israeli war of aggression, Minister Anita Anand is now trying to distance Canada from it and says her government supports a "peaceful solution." Shameless weasels.

X/Twitter post from Anand reading: "Re strikes on Iran, it is key to remember that “Canada wasn't involved. We weren't notified, and we do not have an intention to be involved in any military strikes or operation." In addition, Canada believes in a diplomatic and peaceful solution and in my conversations with my counterparts in the Middle East and Gulf countries, this is precisely the issue that I raise."

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 19/09/2025

Vince Gasparro, the Parliamentary Secretary for "Combatting Crime," just announced that the Irish band Kneecap are banned from entering Canada, 3 days after he met with Israel lobbyists.

Tweet by Gasparro reading: "On behalf of the Government of Canada I am announcing that on the advice of our officials, we have deemed the group Kneecap ineligible to enter our country.

Our government will not tolerate the advocating of political violence, terrorism or Anti-Semitism and hate more broadly."

Tweet by Gasparro reading: "I joined Prime Minister Mark Carney
& colleagues in a meeting with CIJA and Jewish community federations from across Canada.

The Prime Minister was clear in our key legislative initiatives that will help provide more security for Jewish Canadians."

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 02/05/2025

Other Conservatives, meanwhile, are thanking Kurek as if he just died lol

Sen. Denise Batters: “God bless @dckurek!”

John Rustad:
“Thank you Damien Kurek for putting Canada's conservative movement above yourself.
Conservatives are grateful for your selfless, honourable, sacrifice.”

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 02/05/2025

I checked and it’s the third-safest Conservative seat in the country (screenshots from CBC election tracker).

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 02/05/2025

Poilievre is from Calgary. But this riding is a gigantic expanse of rural areas that span south east of Calgary to east of Edmonton.

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 29/04/2025

One of the most unfortunate cases of vote splitting from the night.

Results read:
Aaron Gunn
CON 30,551 38.7%
Tanille Johnston
NDP 25,838 32.8%
Jennifer Lash
LIB 20,468 26%

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 10/04/2025

Israel is meddling with the Canadian federal election.

Tweet by Netanyahu: “Canada has always sided with civilization. So should Mr. Carney. But instead of supporting Israel, a democracy that is fighting a just war with just means against the barbarians of Hamas, he attacks the one and only Jewish state. Mr. Carney, backtrack your irresponsible statement!”

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 09/04/2025

Mark Carney’s campaign speech in Calgary this evening was interrupted twice by pro-Palestine protesters. Both called for an arms embargo on Israel.

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 07/04/2025

The horror! www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Screenshot from the article with highlighted text reading “They found two instances where the platform’s largest news account, Youli-Youmian, amplified information about Carney.”

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 05/04/2025

In March 2020, embattled Conservative Party candidate Aaron Gunn said colonialism is used as a “convenient excuse” by people who have “problems in their lives” and is an importation of “victim culture.”

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 30/03/2025

For a minute there I lost myself

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 27/03/2025

Nobody: Five year old me pretending I’m in a fighter jet:

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 25/03/2025

American hedge fund-owned National Post continues to run content from a far-right Israeli propaganda shop that calls itself a news wire service.

Screenshot of National Post headline, reading “Palestinian filmmaker of Oscar-winning doc 'No Other Land' arrested for stoning security: reports
The Israel Defense Forces reported that the violence began when Palestinian suspects hurled rocks at Israeli civilians, damaging vehicles”

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 24/02/2025

The NYT refers to voters of Die Linke, a socialist party with roots in Marxism-Leninism, as “liberal.” This is a newspaper from a dead political era that cannot grasp ideological concepts that fall outside the incredibly narrow American spectrum. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...

From NYT story: “At a time when German politicians are moving to the right on issues like immigration, and when the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, doubled its vote share from four years ago, Ms. Reichinnek, the party’s co-leader in the Bundestag, and Die Linke succeeded by channeling outrage from liberal, young voters.”

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 21/02/2025

Can’t believe America is turning its back on decades of not annihilating smaller nations 😔

Four images showing destruction in Gaza, Iraq, Libya and Serbia.

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 20/02/2025

Israel reportedly dropping leaflets telling Gazans: “Trump’s mandatory plan … will impose forced displacement upon you whether you accept it or not” (trans. via @dropsitenews.com) They knew these would be translated and shared but they dropped them anyway because they are a Nazi rogue state.

Translated text, according to DropSite News: “"To the honorable people of Gaza,

After the events that have taken place, the temporary ceasefire, and before the implementation of Trump's mandatory plan—which will impose forced displacement upon you whether you accept it or not—we have decided to make one final appeal to those who wish to receive aid in exchange for cooperating with us. We will not hesitate for a moment to provide assistance.

Reconsider your position. The world map will not change if all the people of Gaza cease to exist. No one will feel for you, and no one will ask about you. You have been left alone to face your inevitable fate. Iran cannot even protect itself, let alone protect you, and you have seen with your own eyes what has happened. Neither America nor Europe care about Gaza in any way. Even your Arab countries, which are now our allies, provide us with money and weapons while sending you only shrouds.

There is little time left—the game is almost over.

Whoever wishes to save themselves before it is too late, we are here, remaining until the end of time."

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 20/02/2025

You can really see why Stephen Harper asked Carney to be his finance minister markcarney.ca/media/2025/0...

Mark Carney website: “To achieve both goals, a government led by Mark Carney will separate the federal government’s operating and capital budgets, and make major changes to each. It will balance the federal operating budget over the next three years, creating room for personal tax cuts so that Canadians can keep more of their hard-earned money.”

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 15/02/2025

Not a hint of Tory blue on Poilievre’s podium today.

Pierre Poilievre stands at a red and white podium reading “Canada First.”

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 06/01/2025

This is such an incredibly wretched photo

U2 singer Bono being awarded the American presidential medal of honour by war criminal Joe Biden.

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 16/12/2024

The above are just 2 examples. We’ve published many other important stories on issues that simply don’t get the attention they need elsewhere. action.readthemaple.com/2024-fundrai...

Maple headline: “Meet The Canadians Fighting In Israel’s War On Gaza”

Maple headline: “‘No Evidence’ For Irwin Cotler’s Mandela Claims, South Africans Allege”

Maple headline: “Canadian Newspapers Fail To Disclose Military Experts’ Funding”

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 16/12/2024

Our reporting was cited in Parliament multiple times and played a role in the pressure that ultimately led to a pause on new arms export permits to Israel. We published an unprecedented exposé of HonestReporting Canada’s tactics and supporters. action.readthemaple.com/2024-fundrai...

Maple headline: “Trudeau Government Authorized $28.5 Million Of New Military Exports To Israel Since October”

Maple headline: “Meet The Billionaire-Funded Pro-Israel Group Influencing Media”

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 16/12/2024

2024 was by far The Maple’s most impactful year to date. But our existence is not assured, and depends entirely on our readers paying for subscriptions. Thread action.readthemaple.com/2024-fundrai...

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 25/11/2024

A new report by the Business Council of Canada recommends following the example of past austerity budgets to help pay for the massive hikes in military spending needed to meet NATO targets. www.thebusinesscouncil.ca/report/secur...

“Finally, the Government of Canada can immediately commit to a comprehensive review of its current programming, like the one initiated by the Chrétien government in 1995 or the one launched by the Harper government in 2011. This program review would ensure that the lion’s share of new investments in Canada’s defence industrial base are offset by a decrease in government spending elsewhere.”

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 21/11/2024

October 8 war crimes don’t count because Israel was sad

MP Anthony Housefather says: “the warrant issued by the ICC today against Netanyahu and Gallant claims their crimes started as early as October 8. A day Israel was in shock, grief and mourning. The ICC discredits itself by its actions today.”

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